After enjoying the preserved (ex) CSD 477.013 last weekend in Bohemia the question arose whether the massive B&A 400s had stokers, too, like the CSD 4-8-4Ts.
https://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=22081
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance and best wishes from Germany, Helmut
To my knowledge none of the B&A double-enders ever had stokers, either the 4-6-6s or the 'thermodynamically-rebuilt' older engines.
The 4-6-6s were a bit like the Maffei 4-cylinder Pacifics in that they were very imposing from the front, but much smaller when you got around to the side... I think of them as roughly comparable to other wide-firebox 4-6-0s.
Their weight on drivers (180,000 to 190,000lb. depending on what you read) would have qualified them to get stokers... if they had been built after 1939, and been used in 'fast' passenger service (see the Alaska Railroad letter from 1943 about the law's applicability to power of comparable size built earlier...)
Total bunker capacity was only 6T so how much shoveling could there be between local stops even with a ~61' grate?
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